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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the word that is used to describe the joining of fragments that have broken off a chromosome?
(a) Conjoin.
(b) Fuse.
(c) Anneal.
(d) Genderate.

2. Who wrote the Recent Advances in Cytology?
(a) Ross Harrison.
(b) Barbara McClintock.
(c) L.C. Dunn.
(d) C.D. Darlington.

3. In what year did Evelyn Witkin come to Cold Spring Harbor?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1944.

4. In what year was the first woman admitted to Cornell University?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1872.

5. In the beginning of Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller writes about Barbara giving her talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium and that it was met with what?
(a) Loud cheers.
(b) Stony silence.
(c) Grateful applause.
(d) Stunned awkwardness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Evelyn Keller state is the best word to describe Barbara McClintock's stance on life?

2. What year did Barbara McClintock graduate from Cornell?

3. In Chapter 9, Evelyn Keller states that both science and art are dependent on what?

4. Who was quoted in the book as saying, "You let the material tell you where to go, and it tells you at every step what the next has to be?"

5. How much was the grant that the Rockefeller Foundation gave to Stadler in the mid-1930's?

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